KENNEDY, MATTHEW W.

KENNEDY, MATTHEW W. College music educator (10 March 1921 in Americus, Georgia). He came from a musical family; both parents sang in church choirs and his mother played piano. He began piano study when he was six years old. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Americus, Georgia, and New York. He attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (B.A., 1946), where he studied with John Work, III; the Juilliard School of Music in New York (diploma,...